Centre Pompidou-Metz

Centre Pompidou-Metz
General information
Type	Culture and leisure
Location	Metz, France
Coordinates	49°6′29″N 6°10′48″E
Construction started	November 7, 2006
Inaugurated	May 12, 2010
Cost	69.33 million Euros
Landlord	Metz city
Height	77 m (253 ft)
Technical details
Floor area	10,660 m2 (114,700 sq ft)
Design and construction
Architect	Shigeru Ban
Architecture firm	Shigeru Ban Architects Europe
Main contractor	Metz Métropole
Renovating team
Renovating firm	Demathieu & Bard

The Centre Pompidou Metz is a museum of modern and contemporary art. It is in Metz, France. It shows sculptures, modern and contemporary paintings and graphic art.

The architecture of the building is inspired by a traditional Chinese hat. The carpentry is an innovative assembly made of sixteen kilometers of wood.

Inaugural exhibition of 2010

Some elements of the inaugural exhibition were borrow by the Centre Georges Pompidou of Paris, especially:

• La Femme à la guitare, Georges Braque,
• La Tristesse du Roi, Henri Matisse,
• L'Aubade, Nu couché et musicien, Pablo Picasso,
• Le Violon d'Ingres, photographie, Man Ray,
• La Maison tropicale, architectural prototype conceive by Jean Prouvé.

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  The structure
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  The wood carpentry

Other websites

• Centre Pompidou - Metz Archived 2011-02-23 at the Wayback Machine